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Create Beautiful Abstract Female photo illustration

Make a copy of the last made layer and choose the Free Transform (Ctrl+T) command to scale the copy and to place it the way from below:

Create Beautiful Abstract Female photo illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS5
Create a new layer and choose the Soft Round brush.

Create Beautiful Abstract Female photo illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS5
Use this brush to paint those two ellipses with the color #78002A (Opacity 50%).

Create Beautiful Abstract Female photo illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS5
Change the Blending mode for this layer to Color Dodge.

Create Beautiful Abstract Female photo illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS5
Next we’ll use the Ellipse Tool (U) to represent another ellipse:

Create Beautiful Abstract Female photo illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS5
Make sure the ellipse’s layer is active and click on the bottom part of the Layers panel on Add layer mask icon. Choose the Soft Round brush of black color (Opacity 30%).

Create Beautiful Abstract Female photo illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS5
Use this brush to paint in the mask to hide the inside part of the ellipse.

Create Beautiful Abstract Female photo illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS5
Take the Ellipse Tool (U) again and draw one more ellipse:

Create Beautiful Abstract Female photo illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS5
Make sure the ellipse’s layer is active and click on the bottom part of the Layers panel on Add layer mask icon. Select the Soft Round brush of black color (Opacity 30%):

Create Beautiful Abstract Female photo illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS5
Use this brush to paint in the mask to hide the inside zone of the ellipse.

Create Beautiful Abstract Female photo illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS5
Next we’ll apply again the Ellipse Tool (U) to represent more ellipses, the same way we did before (insert the mask and hide their inside zones using Soft Round brush).

Create Beautiful Abstract Female photo illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS5
Represent another ellipse.

Create Beautiful Abstract Female photo illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS5
Make a copy of the last made layer and choose the Free Transform (Ctrl+T) command to place the copy as on the next demonstrated picture:

Create Beautiful Abstract Female photo illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS5
Add a new ellipse using Ellipse Tool (U).

Create Beautiful Abstract Female photo illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS5
Click on Add a layer style icon from bottom part of the Layers panel and select Drop Shadow.

Create Beautiful Abstract Female photo illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS5
We’ve got the next effect:

Create Beautiful Abstract Female photo illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS5
Make a copy of the last represented layer and select the Free Transform (Ctrl+T) command to change copy’s sizes and its placement. Add layer mask for the copied layer and hide its inside part, applying the Soft Round brush.

Create Beautiful Abstract Female photo illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS5
Next we’ll continue representing the ellipses, applying the Ellipse Tool (U) and hide them smoothly with the Soft Round brush the same way we did with the previous ellipses:

Create Beautiful Abstract Female photo illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS5
Click on Add a layer style icon from bottom part of the Layers panel and select Drop Shadow.

Create Beautiful Abstract Female photo illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS5
We’ve go the next result:

Create Beautiful Abstract Female photo illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS5
Make five copies of the last made layer with the ellipse on it and choose the same Free Transform (Ctrl+T) command to change the copies’ sizes, placing them as it is demonstrated next picture:

Create Beautiful Abstract Female photo illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS5
Next we have to rasterize the ellipse’s layer, the pointer indicates on it:

Create Beautiful Abstract Female photo illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS5
… and select for the rasterized layer next option Filter>Blur>Gaussian blur

Create Beautiful Abstract Female photo illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS5
We’ve got the next result:

Create Beautiful Abstract Female photo illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS5
Choose the Free Transform (Ctrl+T) command to move the ellipse’s layer placement the same way it is shown on the next picture:

Create Beautiful Abstract Female photo illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS5
Make a copy of the rasterized layer containing the ellipse and choose the Free Transform (Ctrl+T) command to make a little smaller the copy, changing also the copy’s color on the white one.

Create Beautiful Abstract Female photo illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS5
Set Fill to 65% for this layer and change the Blending mode to Hard mix.

Create Beautiful Abstract Female photo illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS5
Continue representing the ellipses, applying the Ellipse Tool (U).

Create Beautiful Abstract Female photo illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS5
Make sure the ellipse’s layer is active and click on the bottom part of the Layers panel on Add layer mask icon. Select the Soft Round brush of black color (Opacity 30%):

Create Beautiful Abstract Female photo illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS5
Use this brush to paint in the mask to hide the ellipse content to get the same effect as the next one:

Create Beautiful Abstract Female photo illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS5
Continue representing the next ellipse, applying the same Ellipse Tool (U).

Create Beautiful Abstract Female photo illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS5
Add layer mask and choose the Soft Round brush of black color (Opacity 30%):

Create Beautiful Abstract Female photo illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS5
Paint in the mask to hide the ellipse content, getting the same effect as below:

Create Beautiful Abstract Female photo illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS5
This way we have to represent one more ellipse:

Create Beautiful Abstract Female photo illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS5
Now we have to insert the layer mask on the layer the same way we’ve already described above and hide the ellipse content with the Soft Round brush of black color (Opacity 30%).

Create Beautiful Abstract Female photo illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS5
Create a new layer and choose the Soft Round brush to get a highlight of blue color (Opacity 10%).

Create Beautiful Abstract Female photo illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS5

Create Beautiful Abstract Female photo illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS5
Create a new layer and use the mentioned above brush to represent a highlight of yellow color (Opacity 10%).

Create Beautiful Abstract Female photo illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS5
Create the next new layer, applying here the Soft Round brush of white color (Opacity 20%) to add the last highlight.

Create Beautiful Abstract Female photo illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS5

Create Beautiful Abstract Female photo illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS5
Select Create new fill or adjustment layer from bottom part of the Layers panel and click to Curves to adjust the curve shape as shown to make a little color corrections.

Create Beautiful Abstract Female photo illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS5
We’ve got the next effect:

Create Beautiful Abstract Female photo illustration in Adobe Photoshop CS5
The final picture!

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